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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
: Mites SWORN

ty-siX and a half Gen. MILES SWORD.
carats. East Indian tradition has it that this
stone imparts courage to the wearer and pre-
serves him from evil spirits. In front of this
top is an eagle whose wings encircle it, who
holds in his extended taloRs a pipe and a
tomahawk, emblems of peace and war
The grip is of white enamel banded with
fine lines of beaded gold. On the blade ap-
pears in relief, on one side, General Nelson
A. Miles" on the other side, Presented Sep
tember 4th, 1887, at Tucson, Arizona"
The scabbard, which is of solid gold, is
decorated with Indian scenes, commencing
with representation of an Indian camp and
reservation, a consultation of officers, start
of infantry and cavalry in pursuit of
Apaches, surprise of Indians in ambush, the
fight, the capture of Geronimo, and the tax
ing of captives to the railroad station for
transportation back to the reservation. The
reverse side of the scabbard bears the inscrip-
ton: presented by the people of Arizona,
in grateful acknowledgment of distinguished
services in the capture and removal of Ge-
ronimo and the hostile Apaches."
The toe, or extreme end of the scabbard, is
a carefully modelled portrait of Chief Ge-
ronimo. The entire sword, with the excep-
ton, of course, of the blade, is of gold of
subdued color, or what is termed nugget
finish.
The sword represents the gratitude of the
civilians Of Arizona for the capture Of the
terrible Geronimo
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
INTERIOR OF THE COTTAGE.

1t is only stones throw from the cottage
to Kirk Alloway, where occurred the famous
dance of the witches which Tam OShanter
saw after his drunken frolic. The old church is
a brown stone shell, covered with ivy, and
with the grass growing in its interior. The
graveyard, in which it is situated is on ter
race above the road, and ragged old Scotch
man, with an accent as old as the mossgrown
graves, shows the visitors about and points
out the objects of interest. Igreased his hand
with a few coppers and he repeated poem
after poem of Burns to me. He had them by
heart, and sang them off with slight nasal
twang which is indescribable He pointed
through the broken windows to where Tam
O'Shanter looked in when he saw the devils
dancing, and took me ever to the "Auld Brig
O. Doom" over which Tam rode with the devils
after him. He told me that the old Kirk
was $50 years old, and pointed out the graves
of Burns father and mother
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
TO A CRICkE +.

30 cheerily thou chirp ST thy lulling song,
have no heart to harm thee,
Though near my easement, all daH long,
Thou DER and DER, to charm me
Doth endlessly repeat It. Thou thy theme
Never dOst try to vary.
Why not ? y lis surely good yet do deem
If thy contemporary,
The katydid, and thou, would both submit
Unto some Herr Professor
The music each doth peTpetrate, that II
might suit one vastly 'besseT"
"Nicht war ?" No, no, would not have thee
change
Oh, Jolly serenader,
The old, old song, for something new and
strange,
Not even if the invader
Rossini were, himself 'tis all too dear;
Is always so suggestive
of days ng gone brings them again so near,
| know once more their festive
joys. and on this waning life of mine,
So falls their dewy freshness,
That forget it is in its dec inc;
In the delicious newness
Eevel, thou in these late August days,
Dost revel in thy singing,
could not, If | would. withhold my praise,
Though suddenly up springing,
Thou oft dOst startle me. Contine then
Thy piping shrill but CHEEKY
My little entertaining guest, and when
The winter, ong and dreary
With bitter winds and whitley drifting SHOWS,
Shall come, thou at my Jingle"
shall sing, on the hearth, in calm repose.
OF good John PeerybnSle"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

/ called on Henry w. Grady, the well
.nown editor, the other day to obtain some
figures regarding the increase of wealth in
this section during the rast few years. Grady
is doubtless one of the best posted men on
this subject south of Mason and Dixon's line.
He has made it study, and has southern
statistics at his tongues end In converse
tion he said:
ain seven years the south has increased her
manufactures s213,0O0.OOO. By this mean
that in 1887 she has dug out of the ground
or manufactured from the raw material
$2l3,000,000 worth of products that in 1880
she had to do without or buy from the north
and west. This does not include the gain in
her agricultural product. it simply means
ores, minerals, marbles and manufactured
goods This statement is amazing. Its de-
tails are even more So"
"And the details are!"
"Why, this for example: She now has
about forty iron furnaces i'll blast, making
600 tons Of iron a year. She is now ac-
tually building thirty-one new furnaces, with
a capacity of more than 100000 tons a
year, so that her iron output will be more
than doubled when the furnaces now being
built go into blast. In 1850 she produced
450 900 tons of iron; in 1856, 10000 tons; in
1889, she will produce 100000 TONS The
furnaces now being built will add $40, 100000
year to her income dug from her iron beds
and made into cash."
"Does the increase in other lines compare
with that in ironp
Eyes. In the six years following the Cot
ton exposition she built 113 new cotton mills,
putting over ,000, 900 new spindles in motion.
The cottonseed oil mills grew in the past six
years from 46 to JAG, and ten new mills are
now being built at cost Of 81 ,250 900. One
third of the crop of cottonseed now runs
through the mills, yielding Ss.000,000 worth
of crude oil In fertilizer factories the same
increase is noticed. Georgia bought 100000
tons of fertilizer seven years ago, every ton
of which was bought in the north. Last
year 125, 900 tons were manufactured in
Georgia, and this capacity will be doubled in
another year. Atlanta supplies half dozen
southern states with trunks and valises. She
sends agricultural implements into Mexico,
paper bags into California, and razors over a
dozen states. A few years ago we sent north
for as simple a thing as collins. Now
coffin factory in Atlanta keeps a hundred
men at work. There are not less than a
dozen furniture factories scattered about the
city, reaching up to fine grades of furniture
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

powerful organization of free cities of Ger
many, and her cloths, velvets and silks were
greatly sought after in far distant lands. 1t
was also one of the chief wine emporiums of
Germany. Above all other things, Goettin-
gen was renowned for the warlike spirit of
its inhabitants, who were almost continually
embroiled in some feud with the mobiles
of the neighborhood, and sometimes
with the ruler of the LAM even,
whom the city would never fully
acknowledge. But in the beginning of the
Sixteenth century the pestilence ravaged
Goettingin and half Of the population died !;
and upon the heels of that came the thirty
years and the seven years wars, entailing
fearful misery upon the city, and Goettingen
has never recovered her former prominence
as a commercial place.
During the first years of her existence the
new university labored under great difficult
ties. The place was then SO impoverished
that scarcely tolerably decent quarters could
be found for the professors; the 400 students,
who were mostly rich and scions of nobility,
had to be quartered in all sorts Of holes that
hardly deserved the name of lodgings.
Tue astronomical observatory was in an
old tower and the lecture hall for anatomy
was in cellar. However, year by year the
circumstances improved, and as the profes-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
The Wise Fly.

Once upon a time several flies flew into a
kitchen through a window. They were looking
for something nice to eat, but they were not
particular. They were willing to putup with
anything they could find.
The first fly took a sip at some dough which
the cook mad left in the pan. 1t tasted very
nice, but in a short time the insect was racked
with dreadful pain i'll his abdomen, and in a
short time he breathed his last in great agony.
His bowels could not stand the alum with
which the -four had Leen carefully adulter-
ated.
The second fly took a sip at some coffee
dregs, and Immediately his head began to
swim, and he experienced a sensation Of
nausea. After few fearful contortions, the
fly held up his legs and was relieved from
his sufferings by death. Oxide of iron, with
which the coffee was ad1lterated, was more
than the fly constitution could stand
The third fly tried the syrup and dropped
dead into the pitcher. Unless fly is pro-
vided with Besscmer steel bowels he should
never inhale sulphuric acid. It's not healthy.
The fourth fly had massive, sixty-five
ounce brain. He had studied the nature of
his fellow insect. man, and was I'D to his
tricks and devices. Noticing box of Rough
on Flies, which was labeled "Poison," he flew
gayly to it and fed voraciously on its con-
tents. The fly never experienced evil effects,
for, like everything else, the fly poison was
adulterated.- Siftings.
Deer are beng slaughtered right and left
in the Sierras abou. the head of the Ameri-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

The Burns monument at Ayr is WITHIN
few yards of this River Doom, with its beau
tiful banks and braes which Robert Burns
loved so we'll 1t is of stone and cost about
$4,000. 1t has beautiful grounds around it.
A gatekeeper exacts an entrance fee of six
cents before you are permitted to come into
1t, and you pay your second money tribute
here. The room which lies under the nine
Corinthian columns which form the monu
ment contains many relics of Burns, and a
girl presides over these and sells at the same
time photographs of Burns, napkin rings with
pictures of the cottage upon them, and other
mementoes Of the place
My guide was a very lcquacious young
man, and he talked of Burns during the whole
of the journey as though he had known him
intimately. He told me how he used to
plough these fields as boy of H. and how he
got just 500 for his first volume of poems.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
CONE HOME EARLY.

Tome home early" dear form linger,
;, And meets you at the gate.
hours seem days if you are absent,
Bright eyes dim if you are late.
simple words, yet deep the meaning.
Come home early" whispered low,
FROM the lips of one who loves you,
Pleading, before you go.
Fatlent hearts grow weary waiting;
-, Hearts that smother all their pain.
lhen remember, Come home ea.ly,"
Let them never wait again.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

He told stories of his drinking, and said he
supposed it was not SO bad for poet to get
drunk as for an ordinary man. On the way
back he said he would show me the only de-
scendant of Burns yet living in Ayr. This
was, SAID he, an old woman who was in COM
Portable circumstances, and whom we would
see sitting at window in cottage by the
roadside. As we drove back he actually did
point out an old lady who sat and knitted at
second story window, and solemnly assured
us that this was the lady in whose veins flow
the blood of Burns. Whether lie told the
truth or not do not know.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

Three wears later HON. G. G. WRIGHT.
he was made state senator as a whig and
served four years. In 1855 he was made
chief justice of the supreme court of Iowa
by the legislature, filling this position till
1860. Some time later-having in the
meantime declined renomination-upon
the death of Judge Stockton he was
again appointed to the position of chief
justice, and served till 1870, when he was
elected to the United States senate as a Re-
publican, in which body he served six years,
and being placed on the finance, judiciary,
claims and other committees. He declined
denomination to the senate and, having re-
moved to Des Moines, in 1865, re-entered
upon the practice of law. For five years
now Judge Wright has been retired from
active life. For five years he was president
of the Iowa Agricultural society, and for
some time he was one of the trustees of the
Iowa Agricultural college. In 1865 he as
sisted III organizing the Iowa college of law
at Des Moines, which institution, after the
graduation of three classes, was merged with
the State university, at Iowa City, where it
is still in operation and where Judge Wright
still delivers lectures. Judge Wright has
always been an enthusiastic supporter of
popular education and was a school officer
before he became of age.
He Would Be a Cannoneer.
Recruit-lf the request is not out of order,
sir, wish you would assign me to duty with
the Gatling gun squad.
Captain-The squad is already full Have
you any special reason for the request?
Recruit-Only that think l am qualified
TO make good cannoneer, sir. | run the
coffee grinder for Shark & Bilford when I'm
in the city.--Judge
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
Helena, Montana. Thursday, September 20, 1887

Economical observatory in 1907 and died in
1855. Ii ever any one deserved the name of
a learned man it was he. When but boy
he readily solved the most difficult arithmeti-
cal problems. His observations and inven-
tions concerning astronomical science are
from year to year more appreciated and bet
ter understood. He is also the real inventor
of the electric telegraph, which he and Weber
as early as the year 1883 constructed between
the observatory and the university's cabinet
Of physics, about a mile distant.
Famous professors, too, were the two
brothers Grimm, Of whom the elder, Jacob
Ludwig Grimm, born on Jan. 4, 11S5, was
one of the greatest philologists the world has
ever seen--he was the author Of the famous
Grimm dictionary of the German tongue
while the younger brother. Wilhelm Grimm,
born Feb. q, 17S6, was equally great as a
writer and collector of folk lore.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
THE MONARCH'S MOTTO.

Once a mighty potentate,
Placed above his palace gate,
Golden letters-bTight and clear:
None may pass, or enter here,
Who no kindly deed hath wrought
Or some pauper's blessing caught
Warriors ferce-in blood-stained pride
Read its words and turned aside;
Prince-rich in power and gold
Felt its message, clear and cold;
All turned back, and none returned
Till its permit they had earned.
Soon in all this rOomy land
Bles sings rose on every hand;
Great men made their kindness sure,
Rich men helped the sick and poor,
Words and works in sweetness blent,
clothed the land in glad content.
Men who came and turned away
Learned what good in kindness lay;
Hard hearts cursed its terms, but went
Finding, in its work, content;
80, ere many years and days,
All the land was filed with praise.
Then each heart and thankful tongue
With the monarch's praises rung,
Thankful thought and earnest prayer
Paid their tribute to his care;
Anchored in each subjects soul,
Each, part and all, a whole.
Rich in years but poor in pride,
There at last the monarch died;
Wide the pearly portals flew
That his soul might enter through,
White upon heavens arches wrought
Cleaned the same familiar thought.
So. when each his race had run,
Came his people, one by one,
Greeting with welcome smile
It's familiar words and style.
Thus the king upon his throne,
Gave heavens password to his own.
Sun upon the heavenly dome,
Greeting each who journeys home
While thank offerings angels bring
And golden harps and anthems ring
Shines the message of the king.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
LOST.

Lost many sunless years
Upon the road of life:
Old, faded relics, stained with tears,
And SCARED by fruitless strife.
Lost, never to be found
Gone, gone forevermore
swept on the ebbing stream of time,
To an eternal shore.
They vanished one by one,
Each bearing on its breast
A life not lived, a work undone,
A treasure not possessed;
Something for which it seems.
My soul has vainly sought,
The waking truth of happy dreams,
That time has never brought.
Alas the weary days,
Unwelcome in the past.
Are with me yet; my skies are dark,
And night Is gathering fast.
| strain my fearless eyes
To pierce the thickening gloom,
And, mid the shadows, seems to rise,
A vision of the tomb.
Ard is this all-and is there
Beyond life's trouble wave
No healing balm for broken hearts,
No hope beyond the grave?
No haven of repose,
No bright abode of rest,
No land Of promise for the sonl
BY earthly cares oppressed?
Oh, YES poor. fainting heart,
BY stormy billows tossed,
There is better world than this
Whose years are never lost.
Believe in Him who bade
The raging tempest cease
And while eternal ages roll
Thou shalt abide in peace.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
SEPTEM BER.

The Shadows creep softly adown her
As she rests half burnded with slghs,
While with summer fruits we crown her,
And bask in the deeps of her eyes
More luscious than summer. far ripper,
And warm with lees of wine
She slipped when Pan, the gay piper,
hitled the full muscadine.
She is summertime burnt to an ember,'
She brought her naphthaine charms,
This royal perfected September
From August's well-ignited arms.
Last link Of the lsnguorous dream days,
10 earth's luscious fruitings fast bound;
bright summer, with all thy soft gleamways
Farewell. Ripe September is crowned.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
THE NEW SOUTH
AS SHE is TO BE SHOWN AT THE
COMING ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Interview with Henry w. Grady, Who
Believes in the Future of the South
Without Reserve-The Invitation to
President Cieveland-Other Matters.s

Special Correspondence.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 12-The possibilities
of the south continue to occupy the whole
attention of her people. Since the almost
magical growth of cities in the mineral sec
tion here, the people are taking the more re-
cent developments as matter Of course, and
instead of wondering what is coming next,
they are looking about to see if their own
neighborhood will not disgorge some of the
treasures which have built up the present in
dustrial censers of southern population.
The activity just now reminds one Of party
OF bee hunters after honey. Indeed, the
mineral section Of the south seems to be
veritable beehive, where capital, as an EN-
ployer of brain and sinew, is delving into the
honeycomb of the Appalachian chain of noun
tains to bring forth from its storehouse the
products which go to make up rich country.
Although this activity is yet in its swaddling
clothes, it is no myth, and indications point to
this section as entering an era of great pros
perity. This is due to several cause.-the ad-
vent Of capital, the tendency of emigration
southwark, and the ceaseless vigilance and
tireless energy Of the men who are develop
ing its resources. To use a southern express
sion, the people want to make the present
activity ''sure enough" boom.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29


daring and skill
fulness as a GRIM
inal put to shame
the Oldest a n d
N o S t hardened
thieves of that par
ticular sort on
record. The story
of his crime and
his escape have
already been told
in full, and it but
remains to point
out the fact that
though his banged
hair is combed
somewhat Obiec-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

recently, had 53
years of dramatic
life. She was Eng
lisb, and was born
Of Portsmouth on
Sept. IS, 1918. Left
an orphan early in
life, she had a great
longing to go forth
into the world and
do something. The
stage was her bea-
con. She had just
passed her 10th
birthday xyha,, cha
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
WILHELM AND JACOB GRIMM.

We also present here representative stu
dents of the University of Goettingen, in the
costumes worn in 1887, and as they appear
now, as well as a graphic picture of stu
dents duel fought at the beginning of the
Nineteenth century. The duel is still in vogue
there among very considerable part of the
students
A fact worth mentioning is that the stu
dents of Goettingen have always been
great lovers of dogs, at different times over
1900 dogs having been kept there by them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
A GERMAN SCHOOL.
JUBILEE OF THE GOETTINGEN UNI
VERSITY FITlY CELEBRATED.

The Institution was Founded $50 Years
Ago and is Flourishing Still-The
Grimm BrOthers-SomethinSA About the
Duels of German Students.
The present may be called the era of jubi-
lees. Germany, especially. seems of late to
be seized with veritable rage to revel in ju-
bilees and kindred festivals, the latest of
which was the recent celebration of the 150th
anniversary of the founding of the University
of Goettingen, a city of about $4,000 inhabit-
ants, in the Prussian province of Hanover.
The University of Goettingen was founded
in the year 1887 by George II, king of Eng
land and elector of Hanover, and its history
has consequently more than common interest
for those Of our readers whose ancestors were
English. The city of Goettingen occupied as
such, in medieval times, far more promi-
nent position than it does now. 1t was a
member of the mighty Hansa bund, a
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29
WHERE BURNS WAS BORN.
A VISIT TO THE TOWN OF AYR
AND KIRK AllOWAY.
How Scotland Peddles Out Her Great
Sights-Scott for a Shilling and Burns
for Tuppence-The Burns Cottage as
1t Is-A Look at Bonnie Doom.
Especial Correspondence

lopcCleil correspondence.
New YORK, Sept 5.-Not long ago l paid
a visit to Ayr, where the Poet Burns was
born, and took look at Mosgiel, where he
afterward owned farm. Ayr is a thrifty
town of about 1000 people.
1t is full of business and it apparently
thinks its men of today fully as great, if not
greater than the poet who has given it an in
ternational reputation. 1t still contains the
old Tam OShanter inn, where it is said Rob-
ert Burns used to drink with Souter Johnny
and took glass of ale on the second floor
of this in a low ceilinged room, the rafters of
which were smoked with the dirt of genera
tions. The landlord told me that he had
many guests who wanted to take a drink here
because Burns had immortalized the place,
and | found his ale good, though heady.
The birthplace of Robert Burns was not in
the city of Ayr, but in a little low one story
thatched hut lying on the edge of the road
about two miles away. A few shillings paid
bright eyed Scotch boy to drive me to it in
one horse buggy, and the road led through
the cultivated farms and pretty bits of
scenery along the river Doom, which Burns
has immortalizad in his song. The house is
of the rudest description, and it is what is
known in Scotland as an ''auld clay biggin.n
One has to almost stoop to enter its front
door, and before he gets further he has to
pay fee of tuppence to the keeper of the
turnstile, which stands there in the way. 1t
is a disgrace to Scotland that every one of its
sights are charged for in this petty way. If
you want to see a noted monument you pay
tour cents to get to it; if you enter the st.
Giles cathedral at Edinburgh to see where
John Knox preached, it costs you six cents.
and if you want to see where Walter Scott
lived and worked at Abbottsford, it will cost
you n uuartpr
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

marked him for its
own at the early
age of 5. He was
educated at the
Indiana State uni
versity and was
graduated in 1880;
studied law at
r C k i'll e, Ind,
with his brother;
went to Iowa in
1910, and was elect,
ed public prosecu-.
tor of Van Buren,
county in 1S45.
x
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-29

Eugenia De Montague was seeking hus-
band with money. One day she heard lady
friend say that the newly married Ludolph
Remarts was as rich as Croesus.
"Er-by the way" interposed Eugenia,
"would you mind telling me if this Mr..
Cr9sus is a married manf'-Tid Bits